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Privilege, Power, and Pride: Intersectionality within the LGBT Community

5 Ways Ableism Looks in Queer Spaces 

How misogyny makes the LGBTI community a lonely place for queer women NOTE: {This site can’t be reached}

Dividing Factors: Colorism in the LGBTQ Community NOTE: {This site can’t be reached}

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This Photo Series Captures Asexual Experiences From Around The World

What It’s Like To Date When You’re Asexual

  • Content warning: When the article discusses acephobia and discrimination, there is mention of sexual assault.

5 Quick Tips for Being Inclusive of Asexual Students on Campus - Plus 5 Myths You Need to Forget

  • Content warning: When the article discusses acephobia and discrimination, there is mention of sexual assault.

7 Ways to Support a Friend Who Recently Came Out As Asexual

Microaggressions

Summary: This video uses a metaphor to explain microaggressions, how these microaggressions can lead to larger problems.

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Summary: This video uses the media to showcase various forms of microaggressions.

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Summary: This video looks at the microaggressions that can be experienced by transgender people

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Summary: This video defines the ways microaggressions and how we can address them in professional settings

Summary: This video speaks about the struggles of coming out in Asian communities, also adds the intersection of being nonbinary. This video also deals with the struggles within dating and the consequences of Asian stereotypes and racism 

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Summary: This video speaks about experiences of QTPOC dealing with sexual racism and how this has negatively affected their mental health. Also looks at the larger implications of the idea of “preferences” making racism okay.

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Summary: This video speaks about eurocentric beauty standards and being fetishized, and these intersectional struggles are ignored.

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Summary: This video speaks of the violence against black trans women looking at the story of Muhlaysia Booker, and how the media is changing. 

  • Trigger warning: This video shows violence and speaks about sexual assault  

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Summary: This video talks about legal and prison legislation that discriminates against trans women and QTPOC and how these issues are not addressed in the mainstream LGBT+ and Black Lives Matter movements. 

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Summary: This video talks about how awareness can be brought to the two-spirit community, without appropriating this culture. 

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Summary: This video gives a background of the word two-spirit and how it was created and why.

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Trans and Latinx

Summary: This video looks at homophobia within rap, and how to reconcile queerness with culture, and how they can coexist. 

  • Trigger warning: This video uses strong language.

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Struggles of Being Trans and Latinx

Summary: This video speaks of experiences of being at the intersection of trans and Latinx.

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Summary: This video looks at U.S migration through the lens of being trans and P.O.C., and how these identities can affect the experience and reasons for immigration. It also looks at struggles encountered on both sides of the border.

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Summary: This video speaks about how antiblackness appears in all spaces including P.O.C. and Q.T.P.O.C. spaces. It also touches on the commodification and exploitation of black bodies, without the presence of black bodies. 

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Summary: This video looks at the history of homophobia in hip-hop and rap culture, and the context that has led to the development of this issue. It also looks at how this homophobic legacy has continued.

  • Trigger warning: This video uses strong language.

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Summary: This video speaks of how being Muslim and queer, and the legacy of homophobia that stemmed from colonization.

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Summary: This is a video that features 5 trans Latinx folk who give their experiences being trans as it was impacted by their intersection of being Latinx as well.

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Organizations

The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD) at UC Santa Barbara facilitates the intersectional inclusion and representation of the identities, experiences, and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members. RCSGD staff and volunteers, in collaboration with campus partners, promote the celebration, development, scholarship, and success of the LGBTQIA+ community through advocacy, education, programming, and resource creation and referral.

The RCSGD uses intersectional and social justice lenses to work toward trans justice, queer justice, racial justice, and other forms of justice by examining and combating oppressive systems, including white supremacy, heterosexism, misogyny, patriarchy, and xenophobia.

Resources: TrainingLGBTQIA+ GlossaryPronounsComing Out, and more

Pacific Pride Foundation's advocacy and education efforts meet the ongoing and emerging needs of a diverse population in order to create a thriving and visible LGBTQ+ community and to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF) began in 1976 as a Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counseling and Referral center for Gay men and Lesbians. At that time the organization was called Western Addiction Services Program (WASP), and also offered a newsletter called The Bulletin, which is still in publication as our monthly eBulletin.

The Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network educates individuals and organizations on best practices for transgender & gender expansive clients, patients, students, congregants and families; creates and develops spaces, actions, and policies that advance the welfare of transgender and diverse gender non-conforming individuals, their families, and allies in California's Central Coast communities.

An online community and archive of information on what asexuality might look like and how to navigate life as a person who identifies as asexual or how to support someone you care about that identifies as asexual.

This link takes you to the UN Free and Equal Website on Intersex awareness where you can see facts, statistics, and personal stories from intersex folk as well as gives advice on how to be an ally to people who are intersex. 

Handouts

A website that allows folks to have practical practice with a variety of common gendered and nonbinary pronouns while teaching them how to use them in different sentence structures.  

A website established to educate folks about pronouns, what they are, and their importance. When we refer to "personal" pronouns, we don't mean that these pronouns are necessarily private information (generally they are not), we mean that they are pronouns referring to a unique and individual person. Their goal is to create a fundamental understanding about why pronouns matter. 

(TSER) Gender Unicorn Activity

You may recognize this graphic as similar to The Genderbread Person by itspronouncedmetrosexual. We created this graphic with significant changes to more accurately portray the distinction between gender, sex assigned at birth, and sexuality. Ultimately, we wanted to recognize genders outside of the western gender binary, which the Genderbread Person does not. Not all trans people exist on a scale of womanhood and manhood.

The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives.